Early Career

Lunde began his career in early 1982, spending much of the year
wrestling in various independent wrestling companies across the United
States. By the middle of 1983, he made his way to Southeastern Championship Wrestling, an NWA affiliated promotion operating out of Tennessee and Alabama. Taking the name of "Super Olympia", Lunde soon became a member of Ron Fuller's Stud Stable before the year was out. Lunde saw success in the tag team ranks by winning the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship three times with Mr. Olympia and once with Buddy Rose
throughout 1984. By the end of the year, however, Lunde left the
company and joined Mid South Wrestling based out of Shreveport. Lunde's
time in Mid South was coming to an end and during a TV taping the Junk
Yard Dog mentioned to Bill Watts, the owner of Mid South Wrestling, that
Lunde looked like an Anderson. Watts called Jim Crockett and convinced
him to book Lunde.

In the latter half of 1985, the Andersons formed a loose knit alliance with fellow heels Tully Blanchard and Ric Flair,
as they began to have common enemies. The foursome frequently teamed
together in six and, sometimes, eight man tag matches or interfered in
each other's matches to help score a victory or, at least, to prevent
each other from losing their titles. The alliance quickly became a force
within the territory, working in feuds against some of the biggest
stars in the company like Dusty Rhodes, Magnum T.A., the Road Warriors and the Rock 'n' Roll Express. Anderson also saw success as a singles wrestler on January 4, 1986 by winning the vacant NWA Television Championship.
Simultaneously, Anderson was still one half of the NWA National Tag
Team Champions and, even though Crockett promotions abandoned the
National Tag titles in March, Anderson's success as a duo champion
elevated his status within the territory. It was also during this time
that the Andersons, Blanchard, and Flair began calling themselves Four Horsemen with James J. Dillon
serving as the group's manager. Anderson also had a tremendous ability
to do interviews to further the storylines he participated in. His
ability to improvise in interviews allowed him to coin the "Four
Horsemen" moniker for the stable, as he likened their coming to wrestle
at an event and the aftermath of their wrath as being akin to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,
and the name stuck. Anderson continued his reign as NWA Television
Champion for most of the year, holding the championship for just over 9
months before losing it to Dusty Rhodes on September 9, 1986.

The first real setback with the Horsemen occurred at Starrcade '86 after Anderson and Ole lost a Steel Cage match to The Rock 'n' Roll Express,
with Ole getting pinned. The subsequent storyline positioned Ole as the
weak link within the team, possibly attributed to his age. Ole's
position with the group was only further weakened after he decided to
take two months off after Starrcade. After Ole's return in February
1987, the other Horsemen turned on him and threw him out of the group,
resulting in Ole incurring numerous attacks over the next several
months. Afterwards, Ole was replaced with Lex Luger and the Horsemen resumed their dominance of the company.

As a member of the Horsemen, Anderson continued to be involved in
high profile angles within the company. By mid 1987, Anderson and fellow
Horsemen Tully Blanchard began regularly competing as a tag team and
rose quickly through the tag team ranks. The duo faced the Rock 'n' Roll
Express for the NWA World Tag Team Championship
on September 29, 1987 and were victorious. This win further solidified
the group's dominance in the company as Lex Luger was the reigning NWA United States Heavyweight Champion and Ric Flair spent most of 1987 as the NWA World Heavyweight Champion,
losing it to Ron Garvin in September, only to regain it at Starrcade
'87 on Thanksgiving night. Anderson and Tully continued to feud
throughout the rest of the year and first few months of 1988 with the
Road Warriors, the Rock 'n' Roll Express and the Midnight Express being their most frequent rivals.

By December 1987, Luger had defected from the Horsemen and began a
heated feud with the group, with Ric Flair especially. In early 1988,
Luger formed a tag team with Barry Windham
and began challenging Anderson and Blanchard for the NWA World Tag Team
Championship. The bigger, stronger team of Windham and Luger were
eventually successful, winning the titles on March 27, 1988. The reign
would be short lived, however, as Anderson and Blanchard regained the
titles less than a month later after Barry Windham turned on Luger
during their match and joined the Horsemen. Though Anderson and
Blanchard were two of the biggest stars in Crockett's company, they were
frequently in dispute with Crockett over their pay. Despite the fact
that the two, along with the Horsemen, were helping to generate millions
of dollars in revenue for the company, they considered themselves to be
underpaid. Their last contracted match with the company took place on
September 10, 1988 when they dropped the NWA World Tag Team Championship
to the Midnight Express before leaving for the WWF.

In December 1989, Anderson left the WWF and went back to his old stomping grounds. Crockett's company was now called World Championship Wrestling and was under the ownership of billionaire mogul Ted Turner. Anderson helped to reform the Horsemen and he quickly found success in the company, winning the NWA World Television Championship an January 2, 1990. Anderson remained the champion almost the entire year before dropping it to Tom Zenk. Zenk's reign would be short lived, however, as Anderson regained the title, having been renamed the WCW World Television Championship
on January 14, 1991. His third reign with the title was also considered
successful as he held the title a little more than five months before
dropping it to "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton on May 19, 1991. Afterwards, Anderson entered the tag team ranks of WCW.

In the summer of 1991, Anderson formed a tag team with Larry Zbyszko and they called themselves The Enforcers. After competing for several months and moving up in the tag team ranks, they successfully captured the WCW World Tag Team Championship on September 2, 1991. The reign would be short lived, however, as they lost the titles roughly two and a half months later to Ricky Steamboat and Dustin Rhodes.
Anderson and Zbyszko went their separate ways shortly afterward.
Anderson quickly rebounded from his split with Zbyszko and formed a tag
team with Beautiful Bobby Eaton, a long time friend and best known for
his time as one half of the Midnight Express. At this point, they were members of Paul E. Dangerously's Dangerous Alliance.
They quickly moved up the tag team division and were soon a threat to
Steamboat and Rhodes. Anderson and Eaton quickly won the titles on
January 16, 1992 and defended the titles against all comers for the next
four and a half months before losing the titles to The Steiner Brothers in May.

In May 1993, Anderson joined Ole Anderson and Ric Flair to re-form
the Four Horsemen. Blanchard, who was originally scheduled to be part of
the group, failed a drug test and was released from the company. As a
replacement, the Horsemen introduced Paul Roma as their newest member. Although athletic and a skilled in-ring competitor, Roma had spent much of his career as a jobber in the WWF. As part of an interview segment for the Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen DVD, Triple H
stated that he thought the addition of Roma made the membership the
weakest in the history of the group, and Arn himself referred to Roma as
"a glorified gym rat". Although Anderson and Roma won the WCW World Tag
Team Championship in August, the group quickly split and was seen as a
dismal failure by WCW.

Anderson went to rejoin Ric Flair.
Anderson's last championship run began on January 8, 1995 after winning
the WCW World Television Championship. Anderson helped restore the
prestige of the title, which he held for just over six months before
dropping it to The Renegade. He briefly feuded with long time friend Flair, and was assisted by Brian Pillman
in his efforts. However, it was a swerve to reunify the Horsemen with
Flair, Anderson, Pillman, and a partner to be named later (who ended up
being Chris Benoit).

By the end of 1996, Anderson rarely competed in the ring as years of
wear and tear on his body finally started to catch up with him. On the
August 25, 1997 episode of WCW Monday Nitro,
Anderson formally announced his retirement from the ring. While
standing in the ring, surrounded by Ric Flair and newest Horsemen
members Steve McMichael
and Benoit, Anderson declared that his last official act as the
"Enforcer" for the Four Horsemen was to offer his "spot" in the group to
Curt Hennig,
as he was forced to retire due to extensive neck and upper back
injuries. He would work one or two tag matches officially since then,
including teaming with David Flair on an episode of WCW Thunder, but his physical involvement was extremely limited in those bouts.

On the September 14, 1998 edition of Nitro, alongside Steve
McMichael, Dean Malenko, and Chris Benoit, Anderson ceremoniously
reintroduced Ric Flair to WCW after his 12-month hiatus. In doing so,
they reformed the Horsemen who then feuded with WCW President Eric Bischoff. Flair would win the presidency of WCW from Bischoff at Uncensored '99
and turn heel in the process. Anderson remained Flair's right-hand man
during this time as he attempted to keep Flair's delusional hunger for
power at bay.

In 2000, Anderson was a member of the short-lived Old Age Outlaws. Led by Terry Funk, the group of veteran wrestlers battled the revivedNew World Order. WCW would be purchased by the World Wrestling Federation in 2001, ending Anderson's tenure there.